Calvin Harris on pineapple incident

Calvin Harris has claimed that he crashed The X Factor stage to “make a mockery” of the competition and its “terrible” music.

The I’m Not Alone singer, who ran on stage with a pineapple on his head during John And Edward’s act on Saturday before being escorted from the television studios, criticised the “frightening stranglehold” of judge Simon Cowell on the UK charts.

Calvin Harris wanted to ‘make a mockery’ of The X Factor

Speaking on The Chris Moyles Show, the 25-year-old said: “I was just inspired to make a mockery of the show, because it is a music competition, it is a joke and I think it should be treated as such.”

He went on: “It’s terrible, it’s terrible… For the greater good of the nation I wanted to go out there and make an idiot of myself and sort of just bring the whole show into another kind of area in which it’s treated as kind of a joke.”

Calvin said of Simon: “If you look at the chart, it’s like a frightening stranglehold that Simon Cowell has got over the entire music chart in the UK at the moment …I think it just shows that he’s not really a music fan.”

Asked what he thought of the twins, he said: “I’d love them to win because where can they go from there? Not them, where can X Factor go from there? It’s not a music competition.”

On the fate of the pineapple, Calvin added: “I’ve got half of it. I was actually going to auction it on eBay for Great Ormond Street Hospital.